{"id":33906,"date":"2024-10-14T09:14:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33906"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:14:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T16:14:29","slug":"blue-jay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33906","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jay is an eastern bird. One range map marks it as here, but sparsely, another range map doesn&#8217;t show it here at all. I have seen one here only once before, some six years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Jay is a corvid and seems to compete with one of our local corvids, the Steller&#8217;s Jay. Each keeps its own territory with the divide being roughly the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n<p>A Blue Jay pausing on a branch as it watches a Steller&#8217;s Jay.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33909\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bluejay241012as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A little something to eat.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33908\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bluejay241012bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think that I am a bit out of my natural habitat.&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33907\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/bluejay241012cs2.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Blue Jay is an eastern bird. One range map marks it as here, but sparsely, another range map doesn&#8217;t show it here at all. I have seen one here only once before, some six years ago. The Blue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=33906\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33906"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33913,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33906\/revisions\/33913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}